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RacheltomSp
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I am part of a very large business customer of Vodafone and I have been absolutely shocked and astounded by how badly my partner has personally been dealt with yourselves. We are potentially going to lose our dream house due to default payments being placed on my partner's credit file incorrectly 5 years ago of which the last person we spoke to could confirm this. We have been passed through over 14 advisors now and the majority have shown no compassion or urgency to helping us sort out YOUR error. My partner has spent over 5 hours on hold or being passed from pillar to post and was promised call backs that have failed to happen. Finally we have just had a member of your team refuse to transfer us to the case handler to get the headed letter we need for the mortgage company. So if there is anyone out there who can help us obtain this confirmation that would be marvellous. We have 3 hours before we lose the house due to this taking too long. Please do feel free to contact me- we desperately need someone to take this seriously. A lady called Claire Broadhurst gave us an initial e-mail confirmation but it needs to be on a headed PDF letter to be accepted. We are about to lose the house and as you can imagine are. Dry stressed out at the moment.
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@RacheltomSp

 

On our forum it can take between 24 and 48 hours to get a response from us.

 

I'm going to PM you for more help with this.

 

Viki

hrym
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

Vodafone are not trying to get customer to do their work, but there are many questions that can be answered without reference to Vodafone staff (the "how do I?'s" for instabnce).   If someone comes with an urgent query, we can also point people in the right direction to get an answer, often before the forum team can get to the post.

 

In this case, the advice I gave you as soon as I saw your urgent call for help was sound, though there wasn't much time for you to act on the same day, sadly.

RacheltomSp
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I am very grateful for your help and apologies for not realising it was a customer forum. We had already phoned this line and asked for 4 days straight with little success and then the credit part did not action what they promised so you can see I was surprised when I raised this on my query to be directed to a customer forum when we had already been through this process 4 days in a row. It is very stressful being threatened to lose your house purchase when Vodafone had made the error on the credit file and being fobbed off for 4 days with failed promises. I am sure you can understand my stress. At this point I shouldn't have been directed to a customer forum. The complaint was much further beyond this state. Every company makes mistakes- it is only human. But it is how they deal with them that really matters. We have never been let down to this extent by a company. We have clocked a total of 16 calls and over 6 hours between us being passed from pillar to post and then a further 5 calls following up on the letter they promised to send straight away 5 times. It is not good enough I'm afraid.

hrym
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

You're not wrong as such - the forum is monitored by Vodafone staff and they will step in when there's an issue that needs to be addressed internally.   In this case, only someone with account access can deal with the issue you're having, of course.   However, it was not correct that posting here would provide the quick response you needed and, if anyone implied it would, well, they shouldn't have.   It's not wrong to suggest using the forum though, and staff are encouraged to do so as there's an experienced user base that can often help.

 

I can't comment on the specific issue you're having, except to say that, if you've had an assurance about your credit record, I would assume that came from Credit File Support and you really ought to be able to get hold of them.  We've pointed people here in their direction before and I haven't heard of any particular problems getting hold of them.   You do need to call during office hours, though, and it's essential not to accept promises of a callback or attempts to help directly.  Only CFS will have the relevant access at this stage and the authority to deal with the situation.

 

And, I have to say I do hope you get this sorted,   The CFS people are not ogres and will help if they possibly can, but what they say will be final in the event that they don't do what you want.

Getafix
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16: Advanced member

Doesn't help the Op, but this is why it is always recommended to check your credit file before starting any proceedings like this. This avoids being surprised at the nth hour.

RacheltomSp
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Luckily I am in Banking so we of course did do this as is the sensible option when looking for any finance. It was applied within the last 2 months for 5 years ago? Absolutely clear 2 months ago when we started looking. This is why I am so disappointed with how it was handled.

hrym
17: Community Champion
17: Community Champion

And you do seem to have had the correct answer in the first place, too.   I can't help wondering whether, if you'd produced a letter on headed paper, the mortgage company would have said it needed an email?